Qualcomm PMIC Reference HW Design Engineer 

United States, California, San Diego 

435904721

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > PMIC Systems

This is not a layout position

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field and 5+ years of Software, Hardware, Electrical, Systems, or related engineering work experience.

Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field and 4+ years of Software, Hardware, Electrical, Systems, or related engineering work experience.

PhD in in Electrical Engineering or related field and 2+ years of Software, Hardware, Electrical, Systems, or related engineering work experience.

• 2+ years of academic or professional experience using one or more of the following: IC design tools, PCB design tools, SPICE, MATLAB, Verilog/VHDL, C, Python.

Job responsibilities for this position include:

• Design of customer reference board and evaluation kits and working closely with PMIC IC designers and Test HW platform teams for optimizing performance and cost on test hardware platforms.

• Develop and publish PMIC PCB design guidelines, schematic, BOM selection and PCB layout (by working closely with CAD engineer) based on interaction with chipset architecture, chip design and test teams.

• Experience in Mentor PADs Logic and PADs Layout, DxDesigner and Expedition is desirable but not essential.

• Perform the required board level simulations (based on Power Integrity and Signal Integrity tools) to review and sign off on hardware designs developed by various test teams.

• Responsible for characterizing and publishing performance and cost optimized reference BOM lists (power inductors, capacitors, third party components etc) based on component characterization and BOM reduction and optimization tests in lab.

Required for the Role:

• Able to work with common lab test equipments (oscilloscope, spectrum analyzer, logic analyzer, network and impedance analyzer, etc.).

• Experience in Power Management (SMPS, LDO, battery chargers, Clocks, ADC) PCB design and component selection including CAD interface.

• Experience in high layer count multilayer boards (6/8/10 layers) preferred.

• Good understanding of common Signal and Power Integrity issues on test hardware and ability to identify and provide alternate solutions using Signal and Power Integrity simulators (eg. powerSI, SIWave, Ansys) is also a plus.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 6+ years of mobile phone or similar product experience in power systems, power grid analysis and design, hardware or PMIC transistor level design or design/development of design tools and test automation tools.

• 6+ years of experience in one or more of the following areas: SMPS, LDO, Buck Converters, Boost Converters, Clock system generation and distribution, Battery charging and USB, Wireless battery charger, Battery fuel gauging, Haptics ERM/LRA, Precision references, Mobile phone hardware, PWB design, Chipset infrastructure and digital interfaces.

• 1+ year in a technical leadership role.

• 1+ year of experience working in a large matrixed organization.

• 1+ year of work experience in a role requiring interaction with leadership (e.g., Director and above).

Qualcomm expects its employees to abide by all applicable policies and procedures, including but not limited to security and other requirements regarding protection of Company confidential information and other confidential and/or proprietary information, to the extent those requirements are permissible under applicable law.

Pay range:

$133,500.00 - $200,500.00